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Early Years Communication and Language for English as a First Language
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Learner’s Book 2A
Gill Budgell Original material © Cambridge University Press and assessment 2023.
Contents 3
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Note to parents and practitioners Block 1: Friends, family and me
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Block 2: Home and buildings
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Acknowledgements 32
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Note to parents and practitioners Hi, my name is Mia. Find us on the front covers doing lots of fun activities.
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This Learner’s Book provides activities to support the first term of FLE Communication and Language for Cambridge Early Years 2. Activities can be used at school or at home. Children will need support from an adult. Additional guidance about activities can be found in the For practitioners boxes.
Stories are provided for children to enjoy looking at and listening to. Children are not expected to be able to read the stories themselves.
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Children will encounter the following characters within this book. You could ask children to point to the characters when they see them on the pages, and say their names.
Hi, my name is Gemi.
The Learner’s Book activities support the Teaching Resource activities. The Teaching Resource provides step-by-step coverage of the Cambridge Early Years curriculum and guidance on how the Learner’s Book activities develop the curriculum learning statements.
Hi, my name is Rafi.
Hi, my name is Kiho.
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Block 2
Home and buildings
This is the Way (to the tune of Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush)
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This is the way we play football, play football, play football. This is the way we play football, on a bright and sunny morning! This is the way we roller skate, roller skate, roller skate.
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This is the way we roller skate, on a bright and sunny morning!
This is the way we surf on the sea, surf on the sea, surf on the sea. This is the way we surf on the sea on a bright and sunny morning! This is the way we strike a ball, strike a ball, strike a ball. This is the way we strike a ball on a bright and sunny morning! This is the way we run a race, run a race, run a race. This is the way we run a race on a bright and sunny morning!
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This is the way I ... Choose and say.
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Use the pictures to make up your own song. Add actions.
For practitioners Children select pictures to make up their own version of the song as they sing and create actions. Some children may use the same pictures as the text, but in a different order. Others may want to add or use their own ideas. 19 Original material © Cambridge University Press and assessment 2023.
Spot the crab Match and say.
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Look and the crab and say what it is doing. Point to the matching picture from the story.
staying at Gran’s house by the sea
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surfing
under the sea
winning
balancing
For practitioners Children match the crab pictures to the pictures of the story characters doing a similar thing. Support children to read the words that connect the two by reminding them of the story text and how this also works with the pictures. Revisit the role of the crab in the story. 28 Original material © Cambridge University Press and assessment 2023.
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